Inventory & stock control
How this is scored
Whether the stock figure can be trusted: every goods receipt, sale, transfer, return and correction booked as a movement, stock per location and channel, batches, serial numbers and best-before dates where the goods need them, reorder points and purchase orders, and stock synchronised to every sales channel so nothing is oversold.
0 — No stock keeping; quantities live in the shop or in a spreadsheet.
3 — A stock number per product that can be edited by hand, with no movement history, no locations and no link to purchasing.
5 — Stock per product and warehouse updated by orders and goods receipts, synchronised to the connected sales channels, with low-stock alerts and purchase orders to suppliers.
8 — Every movement booked with a reason and a user, stock per bin location, batches, serial numbers and expiry dates tracked, stocktaking (cycle or annual) supported, bundles and kits resolved to components, and reorder suggestions from sales history.
10 — The stock record is an audit-proof ledger: complete movement history exportable, inventory valuation method stated (FIFO, average cost), multi-warehouse and multi-entity stock with transfers in transit, demand forecasting documented, and the stock figure reconciled across every channel in near real time.
The Skeptic
Stock is kept per product, location, sublocation and lot with expiry dates, FEFO and FIFO lot suggestions, inventory counts that count each lot separately, reorder points controlled per product per location, purchase orders with lot assignment on receipt, and stock levels pushed to the connected storefronts; lot movement history is filterable and exports to CSV, and kits resolve to components via the bill of materials. No captured page states a valuation method, demand forecasting or transfers in transit, and I found no public information on reorder suggestions derived from sales history. 6 7 8 13